Elizabeth Haydon Quotes
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
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One cannot afford to be a realist.
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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
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If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
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Ryle Hira: Life is what it is.
